Francis William Bessler has been writing for fifty years about the nature of life and how we think about God. In December 2012 he created his writing website, www.una-bella-vita.com, to share his philosophy of life with the world.
Now he has compiled Wild Flowers, which features a selection of his most recent essays and songs, making them available in print for a more intimate experience.
With twenty-six essays and twenty-seven songs, Wild Flowers is a burst of pure joy, alternately singing out and contemplating from deep within, always in celebration of God's presence everywhere and the divine nature of all life. Some may find the ideas expressed within controversial. But these are one man's views, and the point is to challenge you to think for yourself.
For Bessler, who was once a seminary student, wild flowers serve as a metaphor for things of beauty-people or ideas that grow on the wild side, eschewing formal doctrines and dogmas, preferring to revere God in their own ways. Yet, while each wild flower is independent, we are all the same-a field of wild flowers covering a hillside.
"For sure, we are all in this wonderful thing called Life together. Brothers and Sisters are we all! Don't you agree?"
About the Author: Francis William Bessler was born in 1941 on a small farm outside of Powell, Wyoming. Raised in the Catholic Church, he went on to study for the Catholic ministry at St. Lawrence Seminary in Mount Calvary, Wisconsin, and St. Thomas Seminary in Denver, Colorado. However, he was "discontinued" from further studies at St. Thomas, labeled a "heretic" for making faith subject to understanding. But he has continued his exploration of the nature of God and life independently, as a "wild flower" no longer constrained to formal doctrine
Now, at the age of seventy-two, he considers himself an "armchair philosopher," as opposed to a "lecture philosopher" who dictates to the world. He writes as a student of life, and he is not out to convince the world of anything. He is simply sharing his ideas.
Bessler's debut publication, Wild Flowers, is a collection of essays and songs celebrating his love for life.
